Raj becomes first to get citizenship under O category in Kaski District

March 1, 2016 /
Pahichan Reporter

Kaski (Pahichan) March 1 – District Administration office Kaski has started issuing citizenship to gender and sexual minority as per their identity. Human rights activist Laxmi Silwal , ‘Raj’ is the first person to get citizenship in the district under O category.

After Supreme Court verdict in 2064, Bishnu Adhikari had received citizenship mentioning transgender in the gender category. But Laxmi is first to get citizenship under O category.

Citizenship was provided on the basis of recommendation made by Village Development Committee. After receiving citizenship, Raj urged non-governmental organization and private agencies to mention O.

According to him, it was not easy to get citizenship under O category. “It is a matter of pride and happiness to get citizenship under O category,” said Raj.

There is not a uniform understanding among ordinary people about homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. Even the people who know about variance in this community address saying female, male and transgender. They, however, do not have proper knowledge that transgender have two categories: transgender woman and transgender man.
In this situation, it is not an easy task to inform society about their rights. Even the media and society did not have a positive attitude towards sexual and gender minority such as homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. National media had... Read more